Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Finance, the Vice President, Finance is responsible for ensuring the business achieves its reporting, treasury, tax optimization, and compliance goals. They will be responsible for managing a financial accounting team servicing various business units. The role will oversee both day to day functional reporting as well as numerous project initiatives at any given time.
The VP will champion the group finance function for Travel Edge including the Tours, Leisure, Corporate and Headquarters business units through building strong relationships internal to finance and cross company with other functions/ business units.
They will be both:
1) A hands-on individual contributor with ability to roll up their sleeves to build and independently maintain some functional areas in finance.
2) A change agent leading staff on enhancement to financial reporting procedures or changes to systems, processes and the organizational structure.
Technical Responsibilities:
- Build a road map to introduce, improve and enhance financial controls in support of the group’s audit goals
- Oversees financial models to support decision analysis for senior executives and business unit executive leaders on a regular basis
- Lead internal efforts to optimize the cash tax position for group using sound tax planning and transfer pricing strategies
- Work with FP&A the team on budgeting and forecasting processes and mid-year forecasts through clear understanding of the complex management & financial reporting concepts and key business drivers
- Understand and articulate differences between management reporting function and financial (GAAP based) reporting with ability to pivot seamlessly between two reporting environments/assumptions
- Manage travel compliance efforts to keep all group entities in good standing with tax and travel industry regulators
- Lead and manage the ERP monthly close cycles with attention on optimizing process and adding efficiencies
- Review and improve monthly entity level financial reporting and management reporting output produced by the finance team to contribute to MD&A and monthly executive meetings
- Review monthly consolidation of financial reports
- Manage the reconciliation processes connecting several financial source systems including subledgers to lead ledgers
- Prepare individual and consolidated financial statements for the enterprise as required
- Support all Microsoft NAVISION system upgrades, enhancements, fixes, communicating effectively with management, staff, IT and external consultants
- Regular analysis and updates to the GL structure to align the NAV reporting structure to new business drivers and for evolving reporting needs
People Management Role:
- Maintain a “Best in Class” finance team that can evolve quickly in a very fast paced environment and believes in efficient collaboration both in and out of finance
- Lead by role modelling
- Hire new staff, develop and train as required and work to top grade talent where required in support of scaling and evolving business needs
- Set goals, communicate milestones and provide regular feedback to a group of direct reports
- Ensure that all direct reports are following through with similar goal setting and feedback cycle to resonate at all levels of the finance team
- Collaborate and work with CFO to implement improved financial reporting, controls, policies, systems and processes